Sentence examples for dreary without from inspiring English sources

(I have now seen it twice in the last year.) Spanning three acts and nearly three hours, it is uncommonly dreary without being particularly powerful.

Elements of the ritualistic killings are pretty gross and the spooks can be scary; but as the author gently points out, life would be dreary without a few thrills — as grim as the May Rocket Festival that the Politburo has "trimmed of religion, culture and superstition" (not to mention music, alcohol and gunpowder), "which naturally left very little to celebrate".

For voters, it is dreary elections without meaningful competition.

And as the daughter has left home, it would be horribly dreary here without a dog.

Page after page after dreary page without so much as a paragraph break.

My breakfasts would be dreary events without my daily fix of the wonderful Simon Hoggart, a worthy successor to Shrapnel.

A dreary, bored clerk, without looking up: "204, up those stairs".

Escorting them looks like dreary, hard work without the perk of vicarious connection with the highest reaches of society.

Bland said it was "dreary" being chairman without the powers and responsibilities – "and the joys" – of chairing the BBC in the way that he did.

Yet Ness couldn't corner his quarry without the dreary diligence of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

The purpose of "Wanda Jean" is to question the legal system by exposing its dreary and loaded mechanisms without prettification.